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Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

This title sounds like something a Madden might say. But no doubt Mobile magazine has done a fine job of backing it up. Their list of Gadgets is very comprehensive and hard to argue with. Take a look and add your favorites and disagreements to the comments section.

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Though Jules Verne wrote about a gun that shot electric bullets in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the Taser’s name comes from another book, written by Victor Appleton in 1911, called Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle. Our senior acronym cryptologist broke down the name as follows: Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle, or Taser.

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